16 December 2016

2016- n° 329

In 2015, civil service employment stabilised Civil Service employment - December 2015

At the end of 2015, the French civil service employed 5.65 million persons including subsidised contracts, that is 7,000 more over one year (0.1%). Excluding subsidised contracts, employment was stable at 5.45 million, after a rise of 0.3% in 2014.

Converted to full-time equivalents, annual employment incl. subsidised contracts increased by 0.3%, more weakly than in 2014 (1.2%), and reached 5.29 million.

In the state civil service, the total workforce increased slightly at the end of 2015 (+0.1% in ministries like in public administrative establishments) after being stable in 2014. In public establishments, the sharp fall of subsidised contracts (−4.3%) limited the overall increase. Excluding subsidised contracts, the workforce increase by 0.7%. In ministries, the overall slight rise was due to the workforce growth in ministries of National Education, Higher Education and Research (+1.1%) and Justice (+1.2%). However, employment decreased in most of the other ministries, particularly in the Ministry of Ecology (−5.2%) with −3.8% because of transfers to the local civil service and, to a lesser extent, in ministries of Economy and Finance (−1.8%) and Defense (−1.3%).

In the local civil service, employment slowed down substantially (+0.1% after +1.5% in 2014, incl. subsidised contracts). It climbed in régions and départements (+1.2%) that included the métropole de Lyon created in 2015 in the départemental perimeter. It decreased in the communal sector (−0.2%). However, at constant scope the workforce increased by 0.1% in each sector. Excluding subsidised contracts, the local civil service decreased in 2015 (−0.3%).

In the hospital civil service, employment slowed down too in 2015 (+0.3% after +0.9% in 2014, incl. subsidised contracts). The workforce was almost unchanged in hospitals (+0.1%) and dynamic in medico-social establishments (+1.5%).